Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. In this new model, the Horizon level of innovation is defined by whether the business model is being executed or searched for. Here’s how.

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APRIL 17, 2011

What They Do: Travel search engine. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Search Statistics: 2010 Queries: 634 million. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. .

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. These Key Performance Indicators and processes are what make a company efficient —but they are also the root cause of its inability to be agile and innovative. Act Like a Startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

In this post we’re going to offer a new definition of why startups exist : a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. A business model diagram also shows how the product gets distributed to your customers and how money flows back into your company. What’s the distribution channel.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Startup outcomes are a power law distribution rather than a standard distribution. This impact of exceptional returns is diluted some at the fund level due to portfolio effect, so the distribution between the best and worst funds is far narrower than the distribution of startup outcomes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

A new kind of company, built to leverage new technologies, new media channels, new working practices and new consumer markets, Crowdify is agile, adaptive, responsive and forward thinking — but also grounded and focused on product and brand strategy and return on marketing investment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014. Tools in the New Bubble.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 27, 2021

Being agile, nimble, and quick. As the COVID vaccine becomes widely distributed and regulations begin to lift, companies will likely want to move back to in-office activities, but when is the right time? Each employee and company are searching for their new normal in order to find efficiencies and competitive advantages.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. Labels: search engine marketing 0comments: New comments are not allowed. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. As far as they are concerned, thats eBays job.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2016

Startups are intended to be agile businesses that consistently face engineering and marketing challenges with creative thinking and a willingness to evolve. Vrse was founded to utilize VR as a storytelling medium by developing the technology required to create, play, and distribute “immersive VR films.”

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

Quora Spaces is already gaining traction in organic search. It’s more than just a distribution channel. The feature also has to address a need that people are searching for. In return, customers might first get to Amazon through an off-site search, then buy the product there. People search with queries.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) Product Development Diagram 1. Where Are the Customers?

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

With the pace of innovation increasing, and powerful new tools—such as cloud storage of big data sets and machine learning algorithms for mining that data—now affordable and accessible to even fledgling start-ups, even the most powerful incumbents, such as Walmart and Microsoft, must learn to be more agile in both product development and marketing.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. They used agile engineering perfectly to continually test variants of their Minimum Viable Product (MVP’s) in front of customers often and early to get immediate feedback. Knox was a great example of having a technology in search of a customer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Labels: agile , listening to customers 3comments: hauteroute said. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Split-test experiments that go on forever?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Although Im not a developer, I am captivated by the lean and agile start-up model that you write about. Im passionate about music (topspin like companies)and movie (jaman like companies)distribution. Combining agile development with customer developm. Tried it with multiple browsers. March 19, 2009 9:34 PM Chris Morgan said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

In almost all Agile Development systems, thousands of automated tests are run against every change to the software. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2010

Our goal is to teach students the key concepts of the startup process and help them understand that a startup is a search for a profitable business model. A Startup is a Search For A Business Model. As I’ve described in previous posts ; a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. I suggested the best place to start the conversation is with the 21 st century definition of a startup: A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. failure in searching for innovation when there are many unknowns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

In fact, I recommend that you search for the problem first, rather than creating a solution looking for a problem. Even adding money won’t do it – you need to create a committed and engaged team and partners for marketing and sales, as well as production and distribution. Solutions and inventions alone do not make a business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In the past, we’ve assumed that potential customers would always arrive at our website after Googling a specific search term, and we’d make them “aware” of a problem and how our product solves this problem. For example, the Jira Software team created a microsite dedicated to product-agnostic education about becoming an agile team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Youd better. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

They were interested in the tools and new distribution medium kaChing provided. They were interested in the tools and new distribution medium kaChing provided. Finally, after launch, 30 professional money managers, having read articles on the company, contacted kaChing out of the blue. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

In management jobs related to operations – that is, the people tasked with actually making and distributing physical products – this kind of thinking is now considered ludicrous, thanks to a century of progress. In fact, making mistakes is seen as “proof&# of being second-class. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. Leveraged distribution channels. Its now possible to gain massive distribution for almost any product without asking anyone for permission or signing a complex contract. Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

Online marketing generates billions of dollars in revenue, and even local mom-and-pop businesses feel the pressure to build a solid web presence or risk losing local customers who search online for goods and services. Minnows can maneuver with extraordinary agility, and their size causes bigger fish to overlook them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. But along the way, something strange happened. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. And as part of that we’ve developed a set of tools that could be used to search for business models.

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